3. Policeman Nicolae: The Story of One Man’s Life and Work in the Socialist Republic of Romania (1960–89)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Acronyms viii
5. Foreword ix
6. Editors’ Note xiii
7. Part One: Sinnwelt And Eigen-Sinn
8. 1. Socialism as Sinnwelt: Communist Dictatorship and its World of Meaning in a Cultural-Historical Perspective 1
9. 2. Neither Consent nor Opposition: Eigen-Sinn, or How to Make Sense of Compliance and Self-Assertion under Communist Domination 19
10. Part Two: Authorities And Domination
11. 3. Policeman Nicolae: The Story of One Man’s Life and Work in the Socialist Republic of Romania (1960–89) 31
12. 4. The East German Reporting System: Normality and Legitimacy Through Bureaucracy 51
13. 5. Late Communist Elites and the Demise of State Socialism in Czechoslovakia (1986–89) 61
14. Part Three: Everyday Social Practices And Sinnwelt
15. 6. Local Self-Governance, Voluntary Practices, and the Sinnwelt of Socialist Velenje 81
16. 7. Modern Housekeeping Worlds; or, How Much is Thirty Percent Really? Eigensinnige Consumer Practices and the Hungarian Trade Union’s “Washing Machine Campaign” of 1957–58 111
17. 8. Single Mothers, Lonely Children: Polish Families, Socialist Modernity, and the Experience of Crisis of the Late 1970s and 1980s 129
18. 9. “Since Makarenko the Time for Experiments has Passed”: Peace, Gender, and Human Rights in East Berlin during the 1980s 153
19. Part Four: Intellectual And Expert Worlds And (De-)Legitimization
20. 10. Problems with Progress in Late Socialist Czechoslovakia: The Example of Most, North Bohemia 177
21. 11. Authentic Community and Autonomous Individual: Making Sense of Socialism in Late Socialist Hungary 203
22. 12. The “Will to Publicity” and its Publicists: Curating the Memory of Czechoslovak Samizdat 221
23. 13. Dissident Legalism: Human Rights, Socialist Legality, and the Birth of Legal Resistance in the 1970s Democratic Opposition in Czechoslovakia and Poland 241
24. Contributors 271
25. Translators 272
26. Index 273